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[quote=Anonymous]It's awesome that a student wants to go to a military academy. And, it is certainly unusual for one to apply to every single one, as if there was no difference between the branches. As others have mentioned, a student who is not a child of career military can't get a Presidential nomination and is unlikely to get nominations to multiple academies from Members of Congress, except in places with few college going students. So it is indeed rare, but for reasons other than individual qualifications.

On the whole, you have to keep in mind that the military academies are not terribly selective. A solid B student with 1200 SATs from Montgomery or Fairfax County Public Schools with any team sports participation is pretty much an automatic admit at the academies. These students would be on the bubble for engineering at College Park or UVa. The academies admit rates are skewed low because they include partial and incomplete applicants that other colleges don't.  And, they run very large prep programs so they can admit students who do not normally qualify because of low grades, test scores, or other problems (like high school disciplinary and juvie records).  [/quote]

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